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Not back then. I was born and raised almost within a National Forest. There are regional forms of fire and forest management in the US, or were when the USFS wrote the rules. Once Congress took the reins they enforced the eastern model on all. Controlled burns have become a thing of the past.
The base problem is indeed man. Our population and spread has steadily increased. So even controlled burns (forest style) become too dangerous for the surrounding communities which have grown well beyond rural and density has radically increased.
they still do controlled burns where I live. they have to in order to keep some area's from going up in smoke during
the dry season. also there are other area's that are fire dependent and they do them in order to kill out
invasive plants that can take over from the natural ones.
we are getting into controlled burn season now.